Testing at the San Antonio Public Library. It took three 'scans' and 'choosing' the WIFI berfore the WIFI in this HP zv6000 laptop would stay on. I was then able to auto DHCP to get on line. Am using it now.

3.01, with no 'bug fixes' only takes one 'scan' and one auto DHCP to connect.

to make an archive of a trashed filesystem...while running tmxxine 'Vision' from live-CD..'Vision' uses kernel 2.6.24rc8...and...

..the resulting trashedsystem.sfs is not mountable by Puppy 2.17-1.

Nor mountable in Sabayon 1.1 PE, which uses a 2.6.23-something kernel. dmesg | tail did advise that I should update my kernel.

trashedsystem.sfs is mountable in 'Vision' --I presume it would also be mountable in Barry's "stock" 4-alpha-6 which has a 2.6.24 kernel, though haven't tried. I wonder if it is mountable in the earlier 4-alphas.

Sorry - I haven't had a chance to read through the thread, so there will likely be some duplication. Some of this is more FYI than expecting anyone to do anything about it.

Blurb
Dingo is awesome!
- It seems very solid/stable already.
- It looks truly abominable, but is great if I change the JWM, GTK, and icon themes to normal/standard/whatever the most traditional ones are called.
- It seems very much faster than Puppy 2. I am almost tempted to upgrade from my highly customised Grafpup 104 Browsing (esp. sf.net) is particularly fast. I wonder why?
- I think a lot of the recent improvements are very much addressing real useability, especially for non-geeks, which is great.

More Useful observations/experience
- When I shutdown, it does not turn off my PC. Puppy always has before - is this intentional? Should I provide more information?

- It loads the drivers and everything properly for my soundcard (PCI with a fortemedia fm801 chip) properly, but never turns the sound on. I've checked volumes and muting etc. Grafpup 2 is the same. It works in Puppy 2.16. I've tried to find answers, but maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

- the alltray package is broken - try launching most GTK2 applications with it, and you will get a string of error messages. This is a pity, because it is very useful. I have the same problem with the version I compiled on Puppy 1 (when I say you mention it here). I posted a question to the alltray message group, but now I can't find that, and it needs a new maintainer.

- It has become very confusing with JWM having so many configuration files. I changed the focus mode with the jwm config tool, then edited one of the files manually, then changed the focus mode back with the jwm config tool, but it didn't actually do anything and I had to change it back manually. It also seems to ignore some settings, e.g. I added a line to include jwmrc-personal2, as I was lazy and it has some key bindings not in jwmrc-personal, but they won't work for some reason.
Also, what happened to the warning in .jwmrc to edit the other files instead?
Also, I thought somebody was rewriting the jwm configuration manager? Was I right about this? Barry seems to have rewritten just the theme selection or something, and some of the other (basic) functions are broken like they have been for a year or two. Maybe I should have a look at it... seems like something even I might be able to do. Also, I think a font option in the JWM theme selector would be good.

-Can I suggest having something other than MTPaint as the default action when clicking on a JPEG? People are much more likely to be viewing a JPEG than editing it, and MTPaint isn't great for this.

-What happened to Glipper?

-I have some very common network cards that used to have their driver (tulip) autodected by Puppy, but they haven't been for a number of versions now. Do we try to get everything autodetected (i.e. should I post more information), or not?

-Please can we have xev?

-I had a number of problems with Gnumeric, particularly graphs not being drawn. Hopefully these things will have been fixed in 1.8

-Do we have anything that points users to the easiest way to install dictionaries for Abiword? .pet packages even?

-If you open ChmSee (without opening a chm) it freezes or something and you have to kill it.

-Even if I set the user level thing in Xine to "master of the known universe" most of the tabs in the options dialogue say they are not available at this "user experience level". What does this mean?

-If I boot up Puppy and open Xine, it crashes. If I open it again it crashes again. If I open a file with Xine, it works, and continues to work thereafter.

Probably the two things I miss most are not being able to get the graphical view of mounted partition usage from the memory indicator on the taskbar, and the old volume control in the taskbar

----------------EDIT---------------------
This is the xine error message:

So I have a little look-see inside the initial ram disk shell.
I notice that I can't access any drives via ide drive nodes (e.g. hda) even though those node names are there, but the drives are accessible via the scsi node names, and the /dev/sr0 is my cdrom drive.

But I can't mount it. The mount command just fails no matter what I try.
I notice that the insmod command crashes with a Seg-Fault. and modprobe can't install the module (.ko.gz?) files.
disktype doesn't want to let me in on what my cdrom is, its output looks something like this:

I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I notice that Sabayon Gentoo puts my (1) scsi drive at the top of the chain, e.g. sda, and my 3 ATA drives as sdb sdc sdd. Dingo, by contrast, puts the scsi drive at the bottom as sdd. Perhaps this is causing confusion?

Its not the ordering of drives thats a problem. I have only 1 ide disk (sda) and 1 ide cdrom/dvd (sr0). There is a usb chip reader which gets drive nodes sdb-sde.
I am wondering if it is a bug/issue in the new linux kernel ide-as-scsi drivers?
It would be nice if someone else has this problem can let me know their motherboard ide driver filename and/or chipset.
Here is the computers pci list from elspci -l running from puppy 2.13.

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